The living always modify or falsify perspectives to justify what they think of the dead. But, that is understandable especially when the dead lived a life so complex and ordinarily incomprehensible to most people.

It has been a harsh and suffocating travail. In the years we pushed the project and combed the various US and European Ivory towers, visited the United Nations, prayed in the lush and somber gardens of the world renowned memorials, placarded in solidarity with fellow genocide victims and ran the dangerous streets of the world,

Donald Easum was the tennis buff who in many ways created the Nigerian Tennis circuit. A Tennis circuit line that played from Lagos Lord Rumens to Ogbe Hard Courts in Benin to the Kaduna Clay courts. We picked his balls and were picking for him even at his residential home across Gerrald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

I was in the Caribbeans when the President, Goodluck Jonathan landed Washington and was accosted by the good oldÂ Amanpour and was very alarmed when the aggressive lady nearly croossed her lines and her legs in reaching for the calves of our dear President

The Embassy may be deluged by requests from stranded Nigerians and those who have been victimized by recent laws and regulation which may not be their fault. My charge is to look into every case and seek the best way to ameliorate the situation , save the citizen and at the sametime make sure the laws of the host nation are respected.

In 2007, the island’s natural gas production averaged four billion standard cubic feet per day. In December 2005, the Atlantic LNG fourth production module for liquefied natural gas [LNG] began production. With over 50% increment in the Atlantic LNG’s overall output capacity, at 5.2 tons a year, Trinidad and Tobago can boast of the largest LNG train in the world. With this explosion, she has become the number one gas exporter to the United States.

”The national poverty ratings according to the UN, for Venezuela was 54%. in 1998. Ten years later
the same UN and the Economic Commission of Latin America have recognised that President Chavez Social
programs for Venezuela have reduced the poverty levels from over half the the entire population, to only 26%,
of the same population, with the abject poverty bracket going down to 7%.

President Jonathan was the proverbial breath of fresh air to Nigerians who listened to him in Washington DC two weeks ago. Perhaps that hapless country may yet go somewhere with the kind of optimism which Jonathan exudes and projects. Did he recently say that money for Nigerian leadership echelon who go overseas for medical attention will no longer be accepted.

The Caribbean may not be too schooled on who is in power in Abuja but surely households here and all over the Caribbean are plastered with wall to wall posters of the electrifying Genevieve Nnaji, diamond and multi talented sister Damascus, neck bender nollywood super stars, whose mouthwatering poises like those sisters from the Niger bend, continue to gasp their audience and cause civil wars among men.

About two years ago, the USA intelligence watch, opined that within the next fifteen years or so, Nigeria would most likey slide into a failed state.There were cries of indignation from Nigerians all over the world.

The same American experience, would not fail to reserve a chapter or more for George Washington, the gentleman, the same writers refer to as the father of the nation. President Madison, the petit intellectual from Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, the unrepentant democrat from the same Virginia, down the line

Nobody can say exactly which constitution is working the actions of the Nigerian government since the eclipse of the Obasanjo third term aspirations. We were not sure where it is written in the Nigerian Constitution that, a serving Nigerian President, or for that matter, an Acting President, must appoint a battalion of surrogates, mainly those who helped him win elections, into the executive seats of Federal Ministers.

[….at the Vanguard War Room at the Kirikiri base of the Vanguard Regimental Command….Enter Admiral KKK Omoregie, Major General One Leg Atamuna, VRC Adjutant, Major Olabisi Olakankinta, Major 419 Oboh Utueke,and for the first time since he abandoned the VRC to join forces with the MENDO Atlantic Revolutionary Suicide Squad, the good old RSM Okon Bassey is back on parade] .